Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humor sparked and crackled through everything he did. Writing of the Mass, he remarked that the recurring word or emus (let us pray) "serves as a useful sort of alarm clock to wake us up at various points." Speaking of non-Roman Catholic denominations, he said: "With all respect to them ... all the identity discs in heaven are marked RC." His most widely quoted witticism is also one of the most famed Limericks in the language, kidding Bishop Berkeley's doctrine that things exist only when observed...
...Kent, a high-Episcopal prep school in Connecticut, Cozzens found that if he could not command his schoolmates' respect as an athlete, he could awe them in other ways: "I was the boy intellectual who didn't believe in God, scorned healthy exercise, and subscribed to the New Republic. But Kent marked me for life. If there's hard work to be done and I get out of it, I feel extremely guilty. That's the attitude Father Sill inculcated in us." The late Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill, founder and headmaster of Kent, was a thunderous...
...provided to Diaspora Jewry only by Israel. Rabbis may preach the theory of the chosen people and believe in it, but the Jewish member of an American golf club does not believe in it. If Jewish people in the Diaspora cannot find a new source of pride and self-respect, they will collapse psychologically. That is where Israel comes in. But it is dependent upon real partnership...
...died in 1930. the film colony mourned an enigma. Reticent and secretive, Chaney, son of two deaf-mutes, shrouded his personality, veiled his past as adroitly as he camouflaged his own features under masterful disguises (he was the Encyclopaedia Britannica's expert on movie makeup). Chaney enjoyed the respect of his own associates in the film industry, but he avoided both publicity and public places...
...involved in human history through centuries of what he calls "coexistence" in Spain, back to the Dark Ages, the Roman arenas, "and on to Abraham." And in the modern world both share many common characteristics: dietary rules, a sense of the sacredness of ritual and the transcendence of God, respect for learning and human reason. Both have been discriminated against and, "in some circles, are still regarded as aliens...